GEROLD GRUBER

Univ. Prof. Dr. Gerold W. Gruber is a member of the Institute for Analysis, Theory and History of Music at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. As a musicologist he is a specialist on Austrian music (17^th-21^st centuries), methods of music analysis and exiled composers persecuted and killed within the Second World War. In 2007 he established the charity organization exil.arte and the scientific centre M.A.E.D. (Music Analysis and Exile Documentation Research Center). In 2009 he arranged a conference of the Word and Music Association, a symposium of the Marcel Proust Society “Marcel Proust und die Neue Musik”. As a film music specialist he has organised in 2009 and 2010 two international film music symposiums. In 2011 he is planning the Gustav Mahler Symposium at the Vienna Concert House. Together with his colleague Reinhard Amon Gerold Gruber is finalizing an encyclopaedia of musical forms (“Lexikon der musikalischen Form”).